enragés (äNräzhā`), term applied to a small group of Parisian radical extremists in the French Revolution French Revolution, political upheaval of world importance in France that began in 1789.
Historians disagree in evaluating the factors that brought about the Revolution.
..... Click the link for more information. . Rising prices and food shortages provoked them in Feb.–Mar., 1793, to pillage the city's food stores. Led by Jacques Roux Roux, Jacques (zhäk r
), d. 1794, French revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. , they demanded strict economic controls and successfully agitated for the overthrow of the Girondists Girondists (jĭrŏn`dĭsts) or Girondins
..... Click the link for more information. . To maintain popular support in a time of crisis, the government granted many of their demands in the early months of the Reign of Terror Reign of Terror, 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to
..... Click the link for more information. , but arrested them. After Roux's arrest (Aug., 1793) Jacques René Hébert Hébert, Jacques René (zhäk rənā` ābĕr`), 1757–94, French journalist and revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. supported them.
Origins of the Revolution
Historians disagree in evaluating the factors that brought about the Revolution.
..... Click the link for more information. . Rising prices and food shortages provoked them in Feb.–Mar., 1793, to pillage the city's food stores. Led by Jacques Roux Roux, Jacques (zhäk r
), d. 1794, French revolutionary...... Click the link for more information. , they demanded strict economic controls and successfully agitated for the overthrow of the Girondists Girondists (jĭrŏn`dĭsts) or Girondins
..... Click the link for more information. . To maintain popular support in a time of crisis, the government granted many of their demands in the early months of the Reign of Terror Reign of Terror, 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to
..... Click the link for more information. , but arrested them. After Roux's arrest (Aug., 1793) Jacques René Hébert Hébert, Jacques René (zhäk rənā` ābĕr`), 1757–94, French journalist and revolutionary.
..... Click the link for more information. supported them.
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